Royal Society hosts edit-a-thon to get women onto Wikipedia The Royal Society is hosting an edit-a-thon for Wikipedia, signing up a bunch of contributors to spend one day adding and editing articles about female scientists including black female neurosurgeon Alexa Canady and UCL Biomedical Imaging expert Eleanor Maguire. The Wiki-eds will have access to a whole host of material from …
Perhaps they should watch a Polish SciFi film that the BBC showed probably a couple of decades ago where a couple of men who for some reason got cryogenically frozen in the 1970s are unfrozen into a future world where women have taken control and men deemed to be unnecessary ... when questioned on how men could ever have run the world they reply that men are always the most intelligent and give Albert Einstein as an example only to be told that Alberta Einstein was a woman.
The truth is there are not as many female scientists as male scientists and fewer famous female scientists that warrant an article. I doubt it's due to most editors being male that there are fewer articles on female scientists. It's because there are fewer of them to write about. I'm sure the numbers of articles on female celebrities or authors would be higher. The content of Wikipedia is just reflecting society. Wikipedia itself is not biased towards men.
There is no discrimination of gender on who can be an editor on Wikipedia. The Internet is as genderless as you make it. People are not under an obligation to reveal their gender. For whatever reason, women just seem less interested or inclined to voluntarily edit Wikipedia in their free time.
..who read the title as "edit a thong" and was seriously disappointed?
If that joke does not disqualify me from commenting, I´d like to say, that this problem, if indeed it is a problem, seems to be a complex one. If the time needed for my sideburns to go gray taught me anything, then a complex problems do not have simple solutions. And this seems to be an attempt on simple solution.
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